Flushed with my success at home with Ubuntu, and needing a clean reliable SVN/Trac install at work, taking courage in both hands I go to install Ubuntu on a brand spanking new Dell Dual Core Xeon beasty.

Using an install CD that had been previously (recently) used by our sys admin - reportedly Fiesty Fawn - off I went. All seemed to go well, apart from a long pause at the php/MySQL install stage, until I came to put OpenSSH on - I swear blind when I was doing it at home the package was openssh, but this machine wasn’t recognising it. Onwards - install ssh seemed to work and I got shell access.

Further on and I’ve got svn working, not yet authenticating with LDAP but that’s not a show stopper yet, but it is when apt-get install trac says there a corruption in a package index or something. A fair amount of updating, upgrading and googling doesn’t do anything until eventually I give up.

Two options - use the installer CD from home which was working well for me, or download the spangly Giggling Goat. What the hell, if it doesn’t work I can always go back to plan A…

So I download it, burn it, reboot the machine and start the process again - and it sails through.

The only discernable differences so far (other than the install was by far the smoothest Linux install ever!) are the addition of Mail, Database, Samba, OpenSSH and a couple of others I can’t remember in the choices for pre-installed packages, and it prompts for a MySQL root password.

Anyway, I’m about to try putting svn and trac on this virgin Giggly Goose machine so fingers crossed!

Postscript - everything else went well - apart from a tiny bit of fun as the way Apache config was split into smaller files - it’s very neat with all the mods_available and mods_enabled linking to them, but if you’ve not seen it before it’s a tad confusing. In any case, Gutsy Gibbon rocks!